Weyer concentration camp

The memorial bearing Weyer / Innviertel is a memorial to the former work education and gypsy detention camp St. Pantaleon- Weyer. The camp was in Weyer, a municipality part of Haigermoos, which was attached to 1945 St. Pantaleon.

Camp History

The DAF - camp was set up in 1940 by Gauleiter August Eigruber as a labor camp. The inmates, mostly citizens of the area were used to drainage works at the Moosach. The camp staff was provided by SA men the group Alpine country from the community. After five prisoners died in quick succession from the effects of ill-treatment, the physician community of St. Pantaleon Dr. A. St. reimbursed display and Ried prosecutor brought charges against camp and guards. The labor camp was closed as a labor camp in early 1941 and the process is set to transfer.

Well, the camp was used as a detention camp Gypsies. Mainly Austrian ( including native-born Innviertel ) Roma, now including women and children, were interned here and used in the Ibm Waidmooser drainage.

In November 1941, the gypsy detention camp was disbanded, the surviving 301 prisoners were loaded into cattle cars and transported in Bürmoos after a brief stay in Burgenland paint stream into the Lodz ghetto.

Memorial

The church of St. Pantaleon recalls with this memorial also to the own responsibility as then competent management, especially since many of the atrocities took place also in the local area of ​​the municipality. The memorial at the Moosach was designed by sculptor Dieter Schmidt from Fridolfing and inaugurated on 24 June 2000. The memorial is located on the boundaries of the present-day town of St. Pantaleon, not on the grounds of the camp Weyer, which belongs to the church today Haigermoos.

Monument

Monument and plaque

Plaque with a brief history of the camp

Plaque at Monument

Bridge of Remembrance

An inconspicuous bridge that leads to the first camp in the immediate vicinity of the Moosach and St. Pantaleon connects with St. Georgen was declared in 2009 by the two mayors Herbert Huber and Fritz Amerhauser at the suggestion of Andreas Maislinger the " Bridge of Remembrance ". The action harmonizes with a district -wide initiative: the entire district of Braunau am Inn, wants to shake off the negative image as " home county of the Führer", now welcomes visitors to limit boards as a "Peace Zone ". 2006 was inspired by the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service to relocate " stumbling blocks " in many other places in the district.